[kabar]

Of course men’s wages haven’t risen as rapidly as wages across the board—they used to be paid a premium for simply being men!

Did you read the study at the link? How could you come to that conclusion?

Really, what is the point of trying to lure back STEM-educated workers who can be more productive elsewhere?

Are they really more productive elsewhere or is it a problem of depressed wages or hiring cheaper foreign workers>

And our entire country benefits when smart and skilled immigrants come to work here. It is less capable, unskilled immigrants who are a drag on the economy and our standard of living.

Our country benefits when smart and skilled immigrants come here, but there has to be limits. And we must calculate the impact on our own citizens who must compete with them for jobs. Where does our primary responsibility lie? The decade ending in 2010 was the highest in our history in terms of legal immigration(13.9 million) but during the same period we suffered a net loss of jobs if 400,000.

[9YearLurker]

Unfortunately the majority of even our legal immigrants have been of the low-skill variety. It is that heavy welfare/EITC/Medicaid population that is a drag on the economy. If we had a more skilled workforce—but truly we must recognize many IT jobs are only of the mid-skill, commodity variety—we wouldn’t see as much offshoring.

A reasonably priced but highly skilled American IT worker is still worth at least a couple of low-cost offshore types.